This experiment started out as an evaluation of what the term "still life" meant. It was decided on that still life meant much more than what usually comes to mind. A still life in this experiment was anything that stilled life, whether that be a set of objects or capturing a moment of moving life via visual or aural means.

My still life explores the idea of "the time between." I wanted to find the things that happen in that place between physical loss and mental realization of loss. What is that time? Are lost objects subject to time? One could argue that in the expanse in which the owner has not yet realized her loss, time does not exist for the lost object. It is people that give time meaning and observe it. What happens to the object if it is so insignificant that no one cares to return it to the owner or that the owner never realizes it has been lost? Could it cease to exist? What if two people make a claim to the same lost object? Does it exist doubly?

I chose to use the flyer as a vehicle for the message because of its inherent connotation: lost and found flyers are only ever made for things of value. I took seemingly worthless objects I found on the street and assumed they had value. Whether or not they did was unimportant.

For two weeks, I posted the flyers around the city of Austin and the University of Texas. At first, I put them in obvious places such as light poles, bulletin boards, and places where other people commonly put flyers. As they were torn down quicker and quicker, I resorted to alternative means. Toward the end of the two weeks, I put the flyers on car windshields, inserted them by hand into the Daily Texan, and covered entire classrooms and bathrooms.

I was diligent in hanging the flyers, and hoped to get at least a few e-mails from the e-mail address I placed at the bottom of the flyers. It would be interesting, I thought, to see if anyone would respond, and if so, what the responses would be like.